Dear XForms Community,
The current XForms 1.1 working draft is what we call a "thin spec". It
describes the new features of XForms without including all of the text of
the prior recommendation (XForms 1.0 Second Edition).
Our next working draft of XForms 1.1 will be published shortly, and all of
the new features for XForms 1.1 are nearly done. It is also a "thin
spec".
The working group expects that only one more "thin spec" working draft
will be needed to complete our description of the new features in XForms
1.1. We expect to request publication of this working draft at the end of
August prior to our next face-to-face meeting.
After that, we will merge the content of the working draft with the
material from XForms 1.0 Second Edition to produce the "full spec" working
draft of XForms 1.1. We expect to request publication of this working
draft at the end of September. Note that while the full spec working
draft may contain many more pages than the preceding thin spec, this is
not due to a drastic change of material. The "full spec" working draft
will contain applied errata relative to XForms 1.0 Second Edition and the
new features from the thin spec.
Finally, since the "full spec" working draft will not contain any new
features, there is a possibility that XForms 1.1 will be entered into last
call status at the time of that publication. This will be decided at the
upcoming face-to-face meeting.
Best regards,
John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Senior Product Architect/Research Scientist
Co-Chair, W3C XForms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/software/
Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer